Al-asma ul-husna ahmed hulusi

impossible for one to evaluate a quality that he himself lacks.
Eventually this leads to pure consciousness in the form of Adam 
approaching the forbidden tree, i.e. becoming restricted by the 
requisites of the bodily life. This is also an interesting anecdote. 
Satan convinces Adam to the ‘wrong’ according to his own ‘right’,
imposing the idea: “You have been created with the Reality of the 
Names, you cannot be restricted or conditioned by anything, you 
should do as you wish. If you don’t eat from the forbidden tree, that 
is, if you don’t live the requirements of the bodily life, you would be 
accepting limitation and thus denying your essential reality, thereby 
depriving yourself of immortality!” 
Consequently, humanity at the level of the Inspiring Self (
nafs-i 
mulhima
), symbolized with the name Adam, becomes veiled from 

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the 
higher states of
pure 
consciousness
, and falls to the bodily state 
of the Commanding Self (
nafs-i ammarah
), becoming conditioned 
by bodily needs. When this reaches the ultimate point of forgetting 
their own essence, the reminders and imparters of reality, i.e. Rasuls, 
become manifest, inviting mankind back to their essence, back to 
having 
faith
in the higher states of 
consciousness
. 
When human beings, who are manifestations of Universal Pure 
Consciousness, begin to experience themselves as individualized 
conscious beings in this physical body, the struggle of this 
relationship with their ‘partner’ (body) and the battle to go back to 
their essential reality commences.
In short: 
There are two types of consciousness. The first is the 
manifestation of the Names as a whole, to observe itself through the 
appearance of individualized compositions. This is the Universal 
Pure Consciousness. The second kind is the individual consciousness 
of each manifestation, formed by genetic inheritances, 
environmental conditionings and astrological influences. For the 
purpose of clarity in this book, we will refer to the second kind as 
‘consciousness’ to avoid confusion. Consciousness is an output of 
the brain and hence confines itself to comprise only the body 
(humanoid). Consciousness uses the mind to evaluate ideas and to 
live accordingly. But the mind, pressured by the body’s biological 
make-up, often malfunctions. As such, it is near impossible for the 
mind to find the Reality all on its own. Furthermore, the mind makes 
judgments based on sensory perception. This is why the mind is 
invited to ‘believe’, to have